The Sun. — London, England, 1836-10-05 00:00:00

SPJJtIT OF THE PuriLte JOURNAL. In the Chronicle of yesterday we observed that " the advocates of the Peers themselves now abandon the foolish theory of Delobne and Blackstone of three powers, and admit that the supreme power cannot be divided." The Standard questions our authority for this statemett. We do not (says our Evening Contemporary) who have made this admission ; we have not seen it any where ; and we are very sure that, in our own humble course, we have never conceded anything so monstrous as the existence of an undivided supreme power in the social state." We may observe that Burke, the oracle of the Tories, is generally considered a shrewd political writer, even by those who differ from him : and Burke took considerable pains to impress on the Tories that the Lords were indebted for their existence to their possessing a majority in the Commons, of which they would be deprived by a Reform in the repre sentation. But we were alluding more particularly to the last article in the Quarterly Review for Sep tember, on the proceedings of the Session 1836. It strikes us as rather strange that the Standard should not have seen an article which its ally, the Times, transferred in extenso to its columns, and warmly eulogised. We borrowed largely from the ar ticle at the time of its appearance, but that, of course, we do not insist on. It strikes us, however, as sin gular that the Standard should affect such ignorance, not only of the Quarterly Review, but of the Times. Is this another way of telling us that it holds the opi nions of the Times and the Quarterly Review in no regard whatever ? The Quarterly Reviewer observed: " It cannot be too often repeated and pressed on the re collection and consideration of the public, that the main objection—that, indeed, of which all others were but con sequences and corollaries—to what was called Parliamentary reform, was this—that under the pretence of clearing the House of Commons from all aristocratical influence, and restoring to its natural, as it was called, and strictly inde pendent state, the Bill was in fact calculated to transfer to it all the substantial power of the country, and to render it not merely independent but predominant, by introducing into its composition such additional elements of mere po pular and physical influence as could not fail, cx necessitate rerun:, to lead to an usurpation of power on its part, and the consequent absorption or annihilation of the two other estates. " This objection was strenuously repelled by the advo cates of the Bill, who insisted that it was a mere visionary danger ; that the Commons having re-conquered their own rights, would be on that very account the more anxious not to infringe those of the other branches ; and that the beautiful theorem of three distinct and equiponderant powers, holding the State in equilibrio, would be the cer tain and unalterable result of their experiment ; and we believe that the vague plausibility of this vision, and its coincidence with the doctrine of the balance of constitu tional powers promulgated by De Lolme, and such super ficial observers, seduced to the support of the Reform Bill a vast number of well-intentioned men, who would have resisted, and by their influence helped to defeat it, if they could have believed thas it was pregnant with a democratic usurpation When, in the Reform debates, it was urged, with the common-place declamation of the theorists, that the House of Commons should be indepen dent of the two other branches, it was on the other hand argued, and at that time not denied, that the equal inde pendence of the other two branches was a logical conse quence of that original proposition; because the constitu tional rights of the Commons were neither in law, in equity, nor in reason, more distinct and absolute than those of the King and the Lords respectively ; and hence it was most truly and rationally deduced, that the attempt to create (under the pretence of restoring what never had existed) these three independent and self-responsible autho rities was not only contrary to the real spirit of the Con stitution, but to the very laws of society and nature—which adm:t of no self-centered powers, and could produce no thing but collisions between the parts, and confusion and distraction to the general system." The Quarterly Reviewer, whose lucubrations have been adopted by the Times, goes to what appears to Tory eyes the very root of the evil—the reform of the representation, and leaves us in little doubt as to the specific which the Tories have in yeti() for pre venting collisions, the restoring to the oligarchy the preponderance in the House of Commons which they possessed previously to the Reform Bill. If, by hook Or crook, the Tories were ever to obtain a majority in the House of Commons, and to a division among Re formers they look for a means for effecting their object, we should probably see some very notable attempts to make future elections less hazerdous to the Tories. We have thus, we trust, satisfied the Standard that • we did not make the statement in question without authority. Om- Evening Contemporary, however, who is a redoubtable combatant, does not rely on De Lohne, Blackstone, Cicero, Locke, Montesquieu, and a hundred nearly equal authorities, but proceeds to ad vance his own reasons':— " The sovereignty of England is (ho observes), we ad here to the opinion of Locke, Blackstone, and the rcpt, distributed among three authorities, reciprocally indepen dent, though exercising in some respects various functions. The effect of this distribution is, that no one of the three can usurp upon the others, or upon the people generally ; that commonly none but good measures will be adopted, while it is extremely improbable that any good measure will be permanently withheld. As to the House of Lords, against which this new doctrine of a supreme undivided power is brought, we have never admitted that that body, considered as an integral of the Constitution, either is, or ought to be, responsible to any power upon earth. Res ponsible to public opinion each individual Peer undoubtedly is ; and responsible in a much higher degree than any other member of society, both on account of the conspicuous stage on which he acts, and the life-long period which he occupies, and is, to occupy, that stage. The aggregate of this individual responsibility to public opinion really con forms the House of Lords much more to the steady sense of the country than the House of Commons is conformed by any process whatever. It is not always possible, how ever, to distinguish between that steady sense of the country and a capricious popular passion ; and the Members of the House of Lords, being no more than men, will sometimes mistake the one for the other, but with this sure event, that, when the steady sense of the country is known, the Lords will acknowledge it : but for their own sake, and the country's sake, they will be, as they ought to be, very slow in the acknowledgment ; all time worst mistakes that they have committed have arisen from precipitate concession." Here we are told that the House of Lords neither is nor ought to be responsible to any power upon earth, but responsible to public opinion each individual Peer undoubtedly is. We are told, moreover, that when the steady sense of the country is known the Lords will acknowledg e it. But if the Lords are responsible to no power upon earth, what security have we that they will acknowledg e the steady sense of the country? There is an easy mode of testing the identification'of the House of Commons with the country—a dissolu tion. Ever since 1830 we have had Houses of Com mons voting one way and the Lords another. Disso lution after dissolution has taken place ; and the elec tions, whether under Whig or Tory Ministers, have sent majorities to the Commons opposed to the majority of the Lords. On one memorable occasion public opinion only produced an impression on the Lords, when the Political Unions covered the face of the land, when the citizens were eve r y wh ere preparing for strife, when the men of Birmingham, Glasgow, and Edinburgh were very tolerably organised and pre pared for the exigencies of the crisis. The L or d s admitted that they did not voluntarily pass the Reform Bill—that they were coerced. There is no doubt that the extreme obstinacy of the Lords may always be overcome by operating on their fears : But this, after all, is but a clumsy mode of enforcing re sponsibility to public opinion. On some occasion the process of conversion may be so tedious, that public impatience may attempt to hasten it by means well understood in Printing-house-square. We confess we are by no means enamoured of a responsibility, to which in cases of obstinacy effect must be given by such ha zardous means. Government is a trust for the benefit of the people ; its object is the protection of life and property. The Legislature of a country ought to be identified in interest with the mass of the possessors of property. In this country the late Reform Bill, though it left many awkward ano malies, and, by means of the 501. tenant-at-will franchise, gave the county representation to the Squirearchy, was a great advance towards the iden tification of the House of Commons with the great body of owners of property. But with the House of Lords as at present constituted the owners of property are not identified. It is the interest of the rich Peers, no doubt, that the Government should be conducted for the benefit of the nation. But there are not a few Peers not only not rich but absolutely beggars, and many who are without the TELE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1836. has spoken differently to the minds of the Tories ? To the tyrannical Orange faction in Ireland it has spoken daggers. Its sound has been to them like the ringing of their death knell. Their doom is indecd sealed. A very short time and they, as a party, will be for ever consigned to oblivion.—Morn. Advertiser. Yesterday we noticed a letter of Mr. Daniel O'Con nell, but with respect to one portion of it only—viz., its contemptuous and reckless exposure of the notable fraud attempted by these Russell and Morpeth Whigs upon the honest credulity of the people of England, in assuring them that the peace of Ireland would be at all promoted by the passing into laws of the Bills which the Ministers recommended, the Ministers cry section of them ; and this is to preserve an unbroken majority, and the reputation of a Ministry, unstained.— Times. We showed the other day, from Parliamentary Re turns, that the abolition of the punishment of death for forgery (with the two exceptions already noticed), has been followed by a great diminution of the crime. We showed that in the five years ending with 1820, during which period, in England and Wales, no less than ninety-four human victims to the law of blood had perished on the scaffold, the number of commit tals was 645 ; while, in the five years ending with 1835, during which period no human sacrifice was offered up to the paper Moloch, the committals were only 251, or little more than one-half the number that signalised the era of judicial slaughter—an era so shocking to civilisation and humanity I Let the Whig rulers look to these proofs of the inefficacy of death denouncing law to repress the crime of forgery, and say whether it is necessary for the protection of com _—for the stability of commercial mercial property credit—for the security and confidence of mercantile transactions---.that the horrid machinery of the scaf fold should again be put into operation, and its re volting exhibitions obtruded upon the disgusted sense of an enlightened public ? Surely, if the change in the law left the amount of crime as great as it was before, it would be disgraceful, ay, and even criminal, to have recourse to capital punishment again for any , species of forgery, inasmuch as capital punishment would be at least a useless and unprofitable shedding . of human blood. But when it appears, upon unques tionable evidence, that the removal of the capital pe nalty, in all cases in which it has been removed, has been attended with a reduction of the amount of crime ing that their Tithe and Corporate Bills were to be peace-makers, while O'Connell proclaims before all the world that he would make them fresh platforms for agitation 7 . There is, nevertheless, a second charac teristic of the same letter which ought to be referred to, as explanatory, in some degree, of the new predicament in which Mr. Daniel O'Connell finds himself. He repeats and dwells upon his lately discovered fact, that the English mind revolts from him, and rejects his schemes for bringing about a Popish revolution in Ireland. And why does he this ? Is it for the love of truth that he makes so unsavoury an acknowledg ment ? By no means. It is among those truths which he would have " postponed," had he been able. But he is not able. It is too notorious to be disguised or over- looked. There has been nodisplay of English feeling on behalf of Irish Popery and priestly power. There has been on this side the water no shadow of sympathy with M'llale and O'Connell against the Protestant Church and people of Ireland—nay, with all the living con sciousness among Whig Ministers and their depen dents that the key-stone of their Government was to be the downfall of Protestantism, and the revival of to nearly cne.;half what it was before, the setting the scaffold to work again, under Lord Lansdowne's relic of the barbarous law, would be an act of sanguinary severity, without any assignable motive. It would seem as if it were done from a spirit desperately tenacious of the remains of exploded barbarism—treating with contempt the lessons of experience, and setting public opinion at defiance. In the personal clemency of the King we repose great confidence, although we are aware that, if his Ministers insist upOn carrying Lord Lansdowne's clause of the forgery-law into execution, his Majesty is bound by the decision of his respon sible advisers. We know the repugnance which the paternal heart of the King entertains against the ex treme execution of those laws by which the lives of his subjects are taken, and we believe that the prac tical amelioration of several of our still remaining capital statutes during his reign, is mainly owing to the frequent expression of this sentiment by a Monarch who deserves to live in the hearts of a free people. We hope, therefore, that the revival of the extermi nating law of forgery will not stain the mild sway of his paternal sceptre.—Morning Herald. The note of the French Government to the Swiss Directory, which we this day publish, is an interesting document, inasmuch as it practically exhibits the de termination of Louis Philippe, in concert with Austria, not to permit a school of republicanism to be esta blished in Switzerland, to foment revolutions in every country in Europe where its emissaries can find admis sion. Last year the Cabinet of Vienna gave a pretty strong hint to the Jeune Suisse on this subject ; and this year, on the other frontier, France follows the same instructive precedent. By both nations Swit zerland is clearly told that, while they are willing to respect its liberties, they will not allow the establishment of a central depot, from which the propaganda was to be smuggled into Germany Spain, or France. And we have no doubt that Switzerland will be obliged not only to make the concession demanded, but give security for the future that, under the disguise of free exercise of thought and opinion, conspiracies shall not be got up for the destruction of all social rights in States now comparatively happy, or at least content, under their present form of Government. Believing that their fu ture condition and happiness of Europe depends much on the part which France takes in eventful mo ments like the present, wc are rejoiced to see the King so much alive to the dangers which surround him, and so determined to repress the causes when he can which gives rise to them. The Duke of Montbello's note is not well drawn up. The substance cannot be dispraised, but the points are not brought sufficiently close to produce their full effect on public opinion throughout Europe.—lllorning Port. that blessed system of inveterate persecution against every thing English and every thing not Popish, which signalized the existence of a Roman Catholic Parlia ment, and the residence in Ireland of the last of the Stuarts—with all that deep and personal interest on behalf of Whiggery in the triumph of Irish Popery, neither "Whigs nor Radicals would dare to stir, or countenance the dismembering machinations of O'Con nell. That he knew all this himself, was no- thing ; that he could not deny the untoward fact, was nothing ; but it was much that the people of England were aware of it, that public opinion re specting himself and the Whig Ministers began to be sensibly affected by this amongst other elements of a disastrous change, and public contempt for both to spring from it as from a newly opened fountain. What remained, therefore, for the disappointed agita tor ? Since he could not stem the tide of events, he dexterously swam with it, and turned it to the service of his own declining fortunes. He failed in creating an English sympathy with the anti-English cause in Ireland. He therefore seized upon that failure as a means of exciting antipathy towards England in the breast of his wretched countrymen. " You have de ceived yourselves," he says, " in imagining that the English would do anything for you. I have preached to you so long that they were Saxons—foreigners, aliens, enemies to Ireland—that at length . they have believed my word, and have taken up the converse of the proposition, considering you as aliens and enemies to them, and to the whole race of Saxons. Tyrants as they are, they will not help you to destroy their own brethren ; you must therefore do the work of death and desolation for yourselves." Here, there fore, again is agitation made easy—here is a spirit of animosity towards England, refreshed and ripened into frenzy, by the cunning with which this fiend in almost human form appeals to the disappointment of his followers. But November draws nigh. The rent is to be called for, and the base metal thus scattered among the Papist poor of Ireland, when consecrated by the priest, will soon reappear, bearing the Mint stamp, and the Royal image, in sacks of gold and silver. Mr. D. O'Connell states throughout the whole of his letter, that he is now engaged in an experiment, of which the object is to ascertain to what extent lie can make the British Parliament an engine cf ruin to the empire of Great Britain. If he cannot, through the medium of a conjoint Legislature, manage to do fully as much mischief to British interests as by one of ex elusively Irish growth, he will try the other tack—re peal the Union, and restore a College Green Parlia ment, whose Lords Spiritual will soon consist of May nootli-bred Bishops, and mitred Abbots, while the House of Commons will one and all be returned on the authority of Derrynane writs. But if Mr. Daniel O'Connell on one side vindicates the support he has hitherto vouchsafed to the Whigs, on the intelligible ground that they were the only class of Englishmen sufficiently selfish, depraved, and despicable, to warrant any hope on his part that they would promote his views for crushing the Protestant religion, and for eventually rending the empire in twain ; at the same moment we find that the Radicals of England are making demonstrations of anger against this wretched and imbecile band of placemen, for not having gone half far enough in their assaults upon other branches of our constitutional monarchy. The complaint of Daniel O'Connell is, " You are not half Popish enough." The clamour of the English malcontents is, that " you have done nothing for democracy." Yet out of such heterogenous and adverse elements is it that the boasted strength of the Whig Administration and concord of their majority is composed. The pre sent, therefore, appears to us a very curious, and for his Lordship, an extremely anxious crisis, in the for tunes of Lord Melbourne and his miscalled " Cabi net ;" for it is the first hour in which the English Radicals have at once exhibited a clear view of the relation! in which they stand to their Whig de pendants, and have by undisguised declarations and menaces forced upon the Whigs themselves a con sciousness for them so humiliating. The Radical addresses and other publications echo those which proceeded from O'Connell several months ago. They say in words, you must give us short Parlia ments—you must give us a household suffrage—you must give us the voluntary principle—you must give us a demolition of the hereditary House of Lords—to crown all, you must give us the Ballot !1 The Con servatives of both countries saw from the beginning that matters must come to this. They knew that Whigs, if they still retained one spark of the princi ples of those progenitors whose blood flowed within their veins, or if they professed even the rudest and most imperfect sense of what their own individual inte rest and security, derived from fortune, station, con nexion and intelligence, required of them, would not, could not, dared not, make the immeasurable sacrifices which a continued league with democratic revolution ists, and support from such men, must entail upon them. We will speak frankly and seriously on this subject. We thought at first, in the one respect just alluded to, so well of the Whigs, as friends of the British monarchy, that it appeared to us actually im possible for their alliance either with O'Connell or with the English ultra-Radicals to live half the time it has done already. It never, until in their last votes upon the Irish Church and Municipal Bills, seemed to our minds credible that English Whigs, vain of the feats performed by their ancestors at the revolution, could play the whole game of popery in Ireland, and stand in menial servility behind the chair of a coarse, crafty, dishonest, hypocritical upstart. We do not yet believe it physically possible that they will crouch to the republican fanaticism of their English allies, to even one among a series of deadly and att give ack way supo n the noblest institutions of the mo narchy, which, artfully,, a b s t a i n i ng f rom th e use o f th e word republic, would reduce us in fact to a condi tion of republicanism more wildly democratic than has ever a of, but for a few months of rc until this moment have the anarchy yt at hee Paris. dreamed eam N ed ever democrats of England told the Whig Ministers, that the crime of wholesale revolution is the price which they (the Whigs) must pay for the retention of their seats during one other session. " The Ministers and Radicals," as the latter insist, " are to make common cause against the House of Lords, and with the help of the people out of doors, to change the constitution of the legislative peerage." Have we said enough ? Does the Duke of Bedford comprehend this ? Does Lord Holland prefer the seals of the duchy of Lan caster to the hereditary coronet of his house ? Does the Duke of Devonshire ? Does Lord Grey, the sup porter of the Whig Ministry ? Not one, however, but all the great questions insisted on by one class of democrats, are to be placed in abeyance by another means of supporting themselves, according to the no tion of what their station demands, without the aid of the public purse. By the unfortunate constitution of the House of Peers, the old connection between pro perty and function no longer exists—the title and office of Peer remain when every shilling of property may be gone, and the people have no security against the fu ture possibility of nineteen out of twenty of the Peers being absolute beggars. We need not say that one great cause of the eagerness of the people for the Re form Bill was _the knowledge that the resources of the country were the prey of aristocratic paupers—at home and abroad•; they and their connections were, directly or indirectly, quartered on the public. The reason why the public are now impatient for a reform of the Peerage is the rooted conviction that the Lords are opposed to the Commons, because they wish to retain abuses profitable to their order,—because they have interests opposed to those of the nation.—Morning Chronicle. We have frequently had the satisfaction of calling public attention to the proceedings of the Vestry of the Parish of Saint George, Hanover-square, and to point, as to a model for imitation, to the activity and vigilance with which they watch over parochial affairs, especially as regards the rates and their expenditure. The Fourth Report of the Vestry Committee is now before the public, and contains much information of a highly interesting character to the rate-payers of Mid dlesex, and also a most triumphant reply to certain allegations made by the Middlesex Magistrates, affect ing the conduct of the St. George's Committee. The parish of St. George furnishes the best illustration of the advantages to be derived from the representative system of parochial administration. Independently of the abuses which have been corrected by the repre sentative vestry, and the far more satisfactory manner in which it provides for the wants of the parish, it has in the few years of its administration already saved the parish to the amount of several thousand pounds— as may be distinctly proved by a comparison of the results of the new with the old system. In the last three years of the non-representative vestry, the whole parochial assessments amounted to 304,6851., whereas, in the last three years of the representative vestry the rates were not more than 137,2681. So that even with the deduction of 22,5001. remitted by the vestry in 1831, on account of the rate-payers re fusing to pay the rates, there is still a balance on the three years of one hundred and forty-five thousand pounds in favour of the representative system—a fact which appears to the public with a force that neither sophistry nor argument can controvert or resist. The conduct of the Middlesex Magistrates appears to furnish abundant material to the Committee for com plaint and censure. Some time since, when a vacancy occurred in the office of Treasurer, it was proposed, as well on account of security as the saving of ex pense, that the account should be transferred to the Bank of England, whereby that office might be dis continued. This proposition, however, was evaded by the Magistrates, who adjourned its considera tion—and, with a total disregard to the recom mendation of the Committee, and even to com mon courtesy, immediately proceeded to elect a treasurer to the vacant office. This is but one of several charges made against the Magistrates, for defeating the intentions of the Committee, and pre venting the better administration of parochial affairs in the county of Middlesex. These charges deserve a strict investigation on the part of the Government, as from attempts made to suppress the correspondence it would appear, that the Magistrates have not such con fidence in their conduct bearing the test of an investi gation, or meriting the approval of public opinion. The Magistrates, it is true, gave a reply, or what they were pleased to term such, to the charges made by the Committee; but they refused to have it printed, though they subsequently affect regret that it was not sent to every member of the Vestry, as they believed that the Gentlemen of the deputation who waited on the Home Secretary were unacquainted with the circumstance. The report before us gives a convincing exposition of the quibbles by which it was endeavoured to baffle serut►ny, and also abstracts from several Acts of Par liament, and recommendations both from the Vestry and the Government, which the Magistrates have utterly neglected. The Committee successfully reply to certain statements and insinuations made by the Magistrates, arid after publishing the report of the Special Committee of Justices, thus comment on its contents : " St. George's Committee having now inserted the whole Report of the Special Committee of Justices, on the duties of the County Treasurer, proceed to offer a very few com ments upon it. " The Committee it will be seen was an important one by the selection ; there was the Chairman of the Middlesex Quarter Session, 4he Ex-Chairman of the Middlesex Quarter Session, the Chairman of the Committee for Ac-' counts and General Purposes, with several other Justices of the legal profession. What did they recommend to the Court of Middlesex Magistrates? " First, That the Salary for the duties of Treasurer of the County and Treasurer of the Tontine, including all the duties connected with those offices, shall be 750/. a year, as at present ; as Treasurer, 600/. ; as Paymaster of the Ton tine, 1501.' " The Court of Middlesex Magistrates ultimately and unanimously adopted the recommendation, omitting the words ' as Treasurer, 6001. ; as Paymaster of the Ton tine, 150/.' " Upon that rule and regulation Mr. Allen was subse quently appointed. The Vestry of St. George will hardly credit their Committee when they state the fact, that the power to appoint a Treasurer of the Tontine by the Mid dlesex Magistrates, ceased about forty years ago ; —because the money received from the purchasers of the Tontine Annuities had then been expended—and that the power to pay the Treasurer of the Tontine a salary out of the county rates of Middlesex never existed at all. St. George's Com mittee of Vestry now submit the Act of Parliament to prove the fact." We reserve the concluding part of the Report, re specting the affairs of the Lunatic Asylum, for subse quent notice.—Morning Advertiser. A bright prospect is opening on Ireland. After six centuries of oppression and degradation, liberty and glory begin to dawn on her. But a few years ago, and all was gloomy—now the thick darkness begins to be dispelled,. and the light to break in upon her destinies. At this moment Ireland occupies a commanding and elevated position among the nations of Europe. Every one sees in that position the prelude to liberty, glory, and happiness. She presents at this moment the noble spectacle—a spectacle she never before exhibited—of a perfect union of feeling and purpose between her Go vernment and her people. Their principles are the same—their objects are the same—their resolves are the same. Their principles are comprehended in the general one, that Ireland ought no longer to be tram pled on and degraded by an Orange faction—their ob jects are to vindicate the rights and assert the liberties of Ireland—and their resolves are that they shall never not even for one little moment, remit their exertions on her behalf, until full justice be done to her. This i s the spirit which animates alike the people and the Go vernment of Ireland. Seven millions of her sons are now making her wrongs a personal matter. They are individually wounded through her, and the determina tion of every one is to avenge those wrongs by rescuing her from the iron grasp of her Orange enemies. Every true Irishman, overlooking individual modifi cations of political views, is now resolved to act for his country as if her destinies depended on his isolated exertions. This is a moral spectacle of the loftiest order. It is one on which the civilized world is now gazing with admiration and delight . But it is some thing mo re than a spectacle of mere abstract sublimity. It is one which presages the highest and happiest prac ticallreland. Wh a t p ower can resis t so cslos re r a es u u n it i s to union of hearts, and su c h fi x ed ness of re solve a presented i n Bayonets ? the case o f I r i s h men a t this are moment ? Brute force? Assuredly not. The army of Great Britain, even though headed by the most illustrious of her Tory genera l s , wou ld fi n d ere long that they were enga ge d i n an unequal contest with seven millions of a united people. So perfect a union as Ireland at this moment exhibits, on the sub ject of her grievous and manifold wrongs, is but another name for omnipotence. No earthly antacronist power could long resist it. We yesterday calla attention to the admirable address of the Lord Lieutenant. His words have by this time spoken joy to may mil lions of hearts. And this, not to the hearts of Irish men alone, but to the heart of every true lover of li berty, and of his fellow men, in England and Scotland. Need we say that the address of the Lord Lieutenant PRICES OF CANALS, DOCK STOCKS, ASSURANCE COMPANIES, &c.&c. &c. LONDON, TUESDAY, OCT. 4. Number Dividend Price of per CANALS, pet Shares. Annum. Paid. " Share. 1,760 7 pet cent. Ashton and 0 ldham....Av trage 971.1 t% sh. 162 1,182 61. Ashby-de-le.Zouch Average 1131. sh. 65 1,2(i0 Basingstoke lOOl. sh. a 1,005 5/. Brecknocr. and Abergavenny 150 , . sh. 90 8,000 I-16sh. 91.25. Birmingham, 1-16th share 81/. & 711. 206 4,000 Ditto and Liverpool Junct...1251 sh. 100 pd 301 600 . Bridgewater and 'Taunton ....100/. sh. all pd 64 400 41. Chelmer and Blackwater 100/. sh. 109 500 471. Coventry 100/. sh. 725 4,515 Croydon ................ Average3ll. 2s 10d. sh. 3 2,0601 41. Os. Dudley lOO/. sh. 7S 600 71. Derby lOOl. sh. 120 20,000 3,575: Ellesmere and Chester Average 133/. sh. 8 0 0 231 401. Erewash 100/. sh. 40 1,297 281. Forth and Clyde Average 4A01.165. sh. 600 11,500 121. Grand Junctior, 2,991 11. Grand Un ion lOOl. sh. 25 1.500 G ra nd Surrey 100/. sh. 120,000/. 41. per cent. Ditto (optional) Loan lOO/. 75 3,090 Grand Western 000 131. 19.5. 80. Glamorganshire, Average cost 1791. 13s. 4d. 230 749 10t. Grantham 1501. sh. 202 6,238 11. 10s. Huddersfield ..........Average 57/. Go. 6d. sh. 32 100 Kensingt m 101 sh. all pd. 10 25,323 11. 2s. Kennet tid Avon, Average 391. 18s. 10d. sh. 214 2,897 l 201. Leeds and Liverpool 100/. sh. 510 545,1 101. Leicester llOl. sh. 149 1,897 -1/. 10s. Leicester and Northampton... Aver 431. li - N. 78 2,400 9/. Monmouth shire lOO/. sh. 200 50 101. Melton Mowb ra y lOO/. sh. 200 500 251. Mersey and Irwell 100/. sh. 560 3,000 1/. 18s. Macclesfield 100/. sh. all pd. 54 217 171. Neath 100/. sh. 325 1,786 30/. Oxford 100/. sh. 5814 2,400 4/, Peak Forest .. .......... Average about 781. sh. 104 21,418 12s. Regent's (or London) Aver. 331. 16s. Bd. sh. 17 5 , 669 61. per cent. Rochdale Average 851. sh. 117 500 8/. Shrop shire /'25/. sh. 140 800 9/. 10s. Somerset Coal 1501. sh. 160 4 45,0001. 5 per cent. Ditto Lock Fund Stock l2l. lOs. sh. 134 700 361. Stafford and Worcester l4Ol. sh. 690 500 111. Shrewsbury 125/. sh. 215 300 8/, Stourbridge 3,6)17 2/. Os. Stratford-on-Avcii ...Average 791. 9s. 1:41. sh. 53 533 13/. Swansea 100/. sh. 215 3,762 1/. Severn and Wye and Railway ...Av 351. sh. 174 2,6015 n. 321. 10s. Trent a nd Merse y , 1 share 1001. sh. 174- 8,149 ..... .... Thames :11d Medway...Aver , 191 . s s. Bd. sh . 2 1,0005 h./ I,ooolsh. 15/. Warwick aid Birmingham 1001 . sh 276 980 194. Warwick and Napton lOO/. sh. 216 6,000 4/.os. Worcester ant! Birmingham...A v.78/.Bs. sh. 81 5,000 20s. Wilts aria Berks .. Average 671. 10s. Bd. sh. 14 800 31. Wyrley and Essington 125/. sh 75 126 Wisbeach . 1051. sh. 45 1/. Wey an AD Arun llO/. sh. 224 L 905 OCKS. . 2,600 & 13 nC. Commercial 100/. sh. 57 1,06545 h -. ' 198,007 V. 5! per ct. East India , ... Stock 117 3,238,3104!. 505. p.ct. London Stock 58 Ditto Bonds 4380,0001. Si. per ct. West India Stock 163: 2,',..0,1 21. 10s. Bristol 68,304/. 51. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts ll6 ',332,752 4 per cent. St. Katharine Stock 874 500,000 4* per cent Ditto Bonds 200,000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds hit - 10 years lOll Shoreham Hai bour Deptford Pier BRIDGES. 1,600 1/. Hammersinai • 5O/. sh. 20 7,231 Southwark, Old Av. 63/. Is. Bd. A. 44 1,700 I/. 15s, Ditto, New, of 74 per cen.• 501. sh. 14 5,000 Waterloo - lOO/. sh. 44 5,000 H. 2s. Ditto 001 Annuities of Si. 6O/. pd 18 5,000 19s. 3d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71 40/. pd 15 60,0001. 5!. per cent. Ditto Bouts 6,000 11. Vauxhall Average 70/. 10s. 3d. sh. 22 ASSURANCE COMPAN:ES. 2,000 3/ 108 Albion 500/. sh. 50/, pd 80 50 r 5 per cent.l Alliance,British& Foreign 100/. sh. 10 1/. pd 13 '''' I and ss. 50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine 100/. sh. 51. pd. 54 24,000 41. per sh. Atlas 1,200 ph. 5/. Birmingham I ire 20,000 41 per cent. British Fire 250/. sh. 50/. pd 45 12,000 6/. per cent. British Commercial 50/. Ma. 5/. pd 64 5,000 51. per cent. Clerical, Medi..Al,&c. Life, ICO/. sh. 11l lOs pd 31 4,000 2/ 108 County 100/. sh. 101. pd 42 40,000 ss. Eagle 5O/. sh. Si. pd 6 1000/. sh. 2501. pd 375 2'^' ,.o, fa s n p d er 3o c l e b n s L . } Economic Lilt: 2,271 54/. per cent. European Li; .a OOl. sh. all pd 25 50,000 2s. Ditto, New ... O/. sh. 2/. pd 2 1,000,000/. 71. per ct. Globe Stock 158 20,000 Si. Guardian lOOl. sh. 2741 pd 34 40,000 [Fire 5 p ct.l , 0 „,._, Life 8 p ct. .5 ''`` oo `"' 5O/. sb. 51. pd 6 2,400 Si. 7s. 6d. Imperial Fire 500/. pd 125 i 7,500 91. Imperial Lite . 100/. sh. 101. pd 10 13,458 12s. per sh. Indemnity Marine 100 1 . sh. Si. pd 17 2,0'20 3/ 101 Kent Fire 50/. sh. all pd 92 3/. Ditto Life 79 10,000 16s. Law Life 100/. sh. 101. pd 29 3,900 London, Fire 23/. sh. 12/. 105. pd 15 31.000 ... ...... Londca, Ship 25/. sh. P 2/. 10s. pd 15 30,0 1 10 51. per cent. Palladium lat,.. 5O/. eh. 2/. pd 218 s Od 250,000 Protector Fire 2Ol. sh. 2/, pd I'J 6d 2,500 1/. Provident late lOO/. sh. 101. pd 11P 100,000 Rock Life O/. sh. 21 . pd '7 689,220/ 5/. per ceut. Royal Exchange Stork- 226 6,000 5 per cent. University Life lOO/. sh. Si. pd 5 50,005 4 per cent. United KillfriOM Life 2l. pd JOINT STOCK BANKS 25,000 Agric. andCumm. of Ireland 25/. sh. 101. pd 5,000 Australa'ia 4Ol. sh. 401. pd 10,000 10 per cent. Bank of Birmingham SC/. sh. 10/. pd 10,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank 5O/. sh. Si. pd 30,000 4 per cent. London and Westminster...loo/ sh. 20!. pd 3,000 Lancaster 100/. sh. 201. pd 25,1100 6 per cent. Liverpool 100/ sh. 10/. pd 50,000 74 per cent. Manchester and Liverpool/ 100/. sh. 15/ pd Discount 20,000 6 per cent. Manchester 100/. sh. 25/ pd 20,000 8 per cent. Provincialßank of lreland 1001. sh. 25/.-pd 20, 10 5 per cent. National Bank of Ireland 5Ol. eh 12*/. pd 10,000 5 per cent. National Provincial Eng. BM. oh, 251. pd !9,000 10 per cent. Gloucestershire 5Ol. sh. 10/. pd (1,000 7 per cent. Hampshire 501. eh. 5/. pd GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 5011 117 s Bath 2O!. sh. 10!. pd 5,000 British 4Ol. sh. 161. pd /.r cent 5,000 [and so. Sc. Ditto Provincial 20/. sh. 19 pd 928 5/ lOs Birmingham 1,230 2/ Os Bristol 1,500 Brighton 2Ol. sh. 750 Ditto, New 2,471 5 per cent. Brighton Geoerel 2O/. sh. all pd 4,000 4/. 'Continental Consolidated lOO/. 624/. Pd 1,000 10/. City of Loud o n lOO/. sh. all pd 1,000 6/: , Ditto, New 4,000 4/. 10s. Equitable 10,000 5/. per cent. Imperial 5Ol. sh. .400 5/. per cent. Isle of Thailet 25/. sh. 20/. pd 2,354) (i/. per cent. : ndependent lO/ sh all pd ',OOO 3!. per cent. Phrenix .. 50/. sli. 391. pd 1,000 41. per cent. Ratcliff . 100!. sh. 80/. pd 4,0:0 South Metropolitan 5l l/ sh. IS!!. pd 8,000 5/. per cent. United General 5O/. sh. 46/, pd 240 5/. per cent. Warwick 50!. sh. 4110 8/. per cent Wakefield 2'4 sh. 12,000 3/. Westminster Chartered ......... , 5O/. sh. 6,00;) 121. Ditto New 5 ll. oh. 10/. pd 800 Yarmouth. 201. sh. 181. pd WATER WORKS. 4,800 Birmingham .5/. sh. 25/. NI 4,133 6/. East London lOO/ sh, 4,500 2/ 105 Grand Junction __Average 411 13s. 4d. sh. 2,000 '2l. Kent 100/. sh. 3;18 10/, Liverpool Bootle '220/ sh 1,500 2110 s New 'diver London Bridge Water Arlntlitieg 6,486 1/ 151 Manchester and Salford lOOl. eh. 1,000 4 per cent. South London 100/. sh. 8000 3/. West Middlesex ....Average 63/. I2s. 9d. sh. 1,360 1114 s York Building Co. Lessee Prop ..... lOO/. sh. IRON RAILWAYS. 2,500 Aylesbury 2O/. sh. I!. pd. 9,500 Birmingham and Gloucester 5/ pd 7,500 Birmingham, Bristol, and Thames Junction 15, 1 00 Bristol and Exeter lOO/. sh. 5 pd 1,130 Calcutta and Saugur 5O/. sh. 21. pd 7,500 Cheltenham and G. Western...!oo/. sh. 2*/ 3,000 Clarence lOO/. sh. 100/. pd 12,000 2,500 19s. Forest of Dean 5Ol. pd Grand Junction 1001. sh. 401. p.l Great North of England 2l. pd 251,31 Great Western WO/. sh. 201. pd 0,0110 ... ...... Ilartlepool 100/. sh. 1001 pd 2,100 Hull and Selby 5O/. sh. 5/. pd 10,000 Leeds and Manchester 100/. sh. Si. pd 7,100 Leeds and Selby 100 sh. 1,500 Leicester and Swannington -.501. sh. all pd 5,103 10 per cent. Liverpool and Manchester...lool.sh. 100/. pd Ditto Quarter Shares 25/. pd 10,000 London and Brighton lOO/. sh. 5/ pd 45,000 Ditto ditto (Gibbs') ...201 sh. 1/. pd 16,000 Ditto ditto (Rennie)...so/. sh. 21. p 4 B,o'o Ditto ditto (Cundy)...lool. sh. 2!. pd 12,000 Loudon and Dover ' 501. sh. U. pd 30,000 London and Gravesend .0/ sh 1/. pd 20,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich ' , Ol. sI4. 201. pd 25,000 London and Birmingham -.100/. sh. 60/, pd 20,c00 London and Southampton -40/. ch. 251. pd 7,000 12,000 ...... 10,010 Manchester South Union 100/. sh. 21. pd North Midland ION. sh. 5/. pd Northeru and Eastern lOO/. sh. Si. pd 2,60(1 Preston and Wyre 501. sh. Si. pd 28,000 South Eastern and Dover .21. pd 1,001) 6/. per cent. Stockton and Darlington IOW. sh. 9,000 6,000 York and North Midland 50 . sh. 1/. pd MINES. 8,000 Albion Copper 5/. sh. 3/. pd 4,000 Alten 15/. sh. 121. 108 pd 10,000 ......... Anglo Mexican, iss. 5/. pm.... 100/. sh. all pd Ditto Subscription .25/. pd 2,000 Bolanos 10,000 11. 10s. Brazilian Imp. iss. 5/. pm. .3.51. sh. 201. pd 6,000 Macaubas & Cocaes United 26E sh, 2341. pd 11,000 Ditto St. John Del Rey 9 0/. sh. 841. pd 10,000 Bolivar Copper Company, '2O/. sh. 2U/. pd 10,000 ...-.... Ditto Scrip 10/. sh. 8/. pd 20,00 1 1 British Iron 5O/. sh. 50/ pd 6,000 British Copper 5/. sh. 34!. pd Cata Branca 61/. pd Candonga 7l/. pd 10,000 I/, Copiapo 2Ol. sh 124/ pd 8,500 Columbian, iss. 5/. pm. 2,850 31, English 20,000 .. ..... .. General Mining Association...2o/. sh. 15/. pd 6,155 Mexican Company 100/. sh 53 1 1. pd 3,008 Polberou Consols 10/. sh. 8/. pd 11,500 Real del Monte, Unregistered Ditto Loan Notes l5Ol. pd 30,000 United Mexican, iss. 2 pm ....401. eh. all pa DWG Scrip Ditto New Scrip 5/ pd West Cork 50/. sh. 50/. pd LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. 1,000 1,500 London University 1001. sh. all pd 700 King' College lOO/. pd MISCELLANEOUS. 10,000 (Si. Australian Agricultural...JOU sh. 2141. pd 6,000 British American Land Company,,, IW. pa 10,000 61. per cent. Canada Company 1001. sh. 23/. pd 200,000 51. per cent. Upper Canada Loan City Bonds, 4 per cent 15,000 14!. General Steam Navigation ...151.:h. 13!. pd 1 101. per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock 2,000 11. London Com. Sale Rooms Av. 751. sh. New Brunswick Land Company 9 8/ pd 2,754 5/. per cent. Reversionary Interest 50c...100/. sh. 100/. pd 2,633 5/. per cent. Ditto New 100/. sh. 45/. pd 4000 10,000 Van Die..nen's Land 100/. sh. 17/. pa 2.500 LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES, SEPT. 28, 1836. BANKS. 1 , 500,001/. 6/. p. ct. Bank of Scotland 83/. 6.5. Bcl. sh. all pd 2041. 2,000,010 1 . 51 P• Cl. Royal of Scotland 100/. sh. all pd Mil. 500.0X11. Bp. ct. British Linen Company 100/. sh. Al pd 2.1344 3,000 ,000/. 61. p. ct. Commercial 5OOl. sh. 100/. pd 1844 5,000,000/. • sp. ct. National lOO4 sh. 10/. pd 1 5 1. 1 . 2,000,0001. 51 . p. ct. Glasgow Union 2501 . sh. 50/. p d 671, : 4,000,0001. 4p. ct. Western of Scotland 2OOl. sh 30/. pd 3 0 1 1 • INSURANCE COMPANIES. 250.0005 h. 61 p. ct. Scottish Union 20 /. sh. 1/. pd 275. 7,500 5 p. ct. Hercules 100,000 s p. ct. Insurance Co. of Scotland .r.110./s.hsh. 50,000 o p. ct. Norfh British 2001 . sh. 10/. pd lat. 100/ 1,000 sp. ct. Caledonian Fire.lo.ll.ippdd 1 1 7 4 1, 1 1 5 0 s s . . sh. 10/. pd 16/0s 5,000 op. et. Edinburgh Life 100/. sh. 101. pd 1410 s 100,000 . West of Scotland ........................ 101. pd 10/ Os all all pd 651. 3 6 7 5/ 4 . i MISCELLANEOI I s 4,810 Edin. and Glas. Un. C ana1...501. sh. all pd 221. 5,400 5 per cent. Ecl nit i t n o b.t i o lo in ca t S te ttic W. . -.. a .. t . e . r .. .......... s s h h . . Carron'lron Company 250/. sh. all pd 4501. 2,0005 h 15 per cent. Shotts Iron Fvunctery WI. sh. 384 Pd 421. 10,000 3 per cent. Edinburgh & Leith Glass 2Ol. sh. 16/. pd 711. 4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas 251. sh. all pd 644 4 2 450 per cent. Glasgow Gas 254 sh. all pd 60/ " 750 6 per cent. Leith Coa l Gas 20/. sh. all p d 4 0/ T,200 5 per cent. Edinbu r g h and Dalkeith Railway...so4sh. 654 h 3,000 per cent. Bquitable Loan Compaoy.„2.sl. ph. 91, pd im THE COAL TRADE. (From the Hull Observer.) " The advance in the price of coals," says the Newcastle Journal, " at this and the neighbouring ports, is causing considerable discussion , and as we have been favoured with a list of prices proposed to take effect on the first of next month, we think it right to publish it for the information of our readers. This list, when compared with the prices charged for this important article of general consumption at other places, shows a striking advantage in favour of the manufacturing and other interests of this district concerned in its use. In Manchester, we are informed, the price is Ins. per ton ; in Birmingham, Liverpool, Bristol, and in Wales, from 16s. 6d. to IBs. per ton. At Newcastle and other ports in the vicinity, the prices per ton of the dif ferent sorts of coals are as follow, viz. (the list is long, the lowest rate being 65., and the highest 10s. 3d. per ton.)" The low price of coals at Newcastle, and the enormous price paid by the consumers in London, it is difficult to re concile. No doubt Alderman Wood and Mr. Charles Pearson can give a satisfactory explanation on this point. One important item in the cost of coals in London is the freight paid for conveying them there, and this is a matter to which we wish to draw the attention of our own ship owners. We understand it is 10s. per ton, and it is esti mated to leave a profit of not less than 50 per cent. per annum on the capital embarked in colliers. We have al ways considered the timber trade with British America highly remunerative to shipping, though most injurious to the nation, but it. seems it is not to be compared with the coal trade. We do not find fault with the shipowners of Newcastle and Sunderland, who are the principle owners of colliers, for charging this great freight, because it is the duty of men engaged in business to get all they can. We are only desirous to stimulate our own shipowners to attempt to obtain a share of this very lucrative trade, which is quite open, and can be as advantageously conducted by one class of shipowners as another, if we except the London ship owners, who, it must be confessed, are rather the best situated, inasmuch that if a cargo arrive at a bad market, the ship may be laid up with the cargo on board until prices improve, and the crew discharged, which cannot so conveniently be done with ships belonging to outports. Should our shipowners take our advice, they will discover that there arc better ways of employing shipping, both as respects themselves and the sailors, than risking their pro perty in the whale fishery. Our sailors are greatly in need of winter employment. On the 24th ult., Mr. Nathaniel Bradley, butcher, at Hawkwell, near Rayleigh, was found dead in a stable. He had been shooting small birds in the morning, and his wife, on going to the stable, found him lifeless, and a gun and shovel by his side ; she fell senseless on the body, and remained so two hours. It appeared the gun had been discharged, and the features not being mutilated it is supposed the charge must have entered his mouth, as the contents had passed through his head. He had been married only a few months, and was about 25. An inquest was held on Monday. Verdict—Acci dental Death.—Essex Herald. A GHOST.—The inhabitants of the lonely portion of Pentonville, beyond Maiden-lane, called the " French Co lony," have for some weeks past been in a state of conside rable excitement and alarm, in consequence of the reports of a ghost, of colossal form, habited in the regular spectral cos tume of a white sheet, with a black mask on his face, having been seen stalking about the fields and lanes by several per sons, to whom his formidable appearance gave great alarm ; indeed, one of the " ghost seers," a little girl of about thirteen years of age, was so excessively frightened as to have been ever since entirely bereft of speech and reason. The police were apprised of the circumstance, and made several endea vours to apprehend him ; but apprised by some means of their solicitude, he kept aloof for some nights. On Wednesday evening last, however, as two men were returning across the fields from Copenhagen House, they espied a tall figure start up from behind a cow, where it had evidently been couchant, and advance with rapid strides towards them, uttering most awful groans. The men, however, had heard of his ghostship before, and waited his approach, "sans pcur," till he got within range of their sticks, when they knocked him down, and continued belabouring him most unmercifully, till his screams convinced them that it was flesh and blond upon which they were so vigorously exercising the argumentum baculinum, and brought the police to the spot. He was immediately car ried to the station-house, where it was discovered, from his severe castigation, he had three ribs broken, besides the other parts of his corporeal person being terribly battered and bruised. The next morning he was taken before Mr. Laing, at Hatton-garden Police-office, and by that Magistrate sen tenced to three months' imprisonment in the House of Cor rection, which it is to be hoped will operate as a warning to him and to others not to play tricks of so injurious a tendency in futiwst WATER TANKS• As the success of the machinery for draining the m' nos in this county sometimes deprives both men and c attle 0 ; that supply of good water which contributes to health aric! comfort, it was suggested at the late meeting of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, that this might be reme died by tanks similar to nine which had proved eminently useful during the late three dry summers on the Suss" property of Davies Gilbert, Esq., the President of this Scr re ciety. As these tanks are cheaply and e asil y constructed and not liable to decay like wooden ves sels, and as its ia enough falls on every house in England for the use waterd of inhabitants, no family would be deficient in good soft who made a tank to retain it ; and such tanks being pav e over, take up no room. The tanks at East Bourn vary in size ; one Ove less than.lies seven feet deep and wide has served two labourers' :fami for three years, whilst most of the springs in the neighhorir• hood were dry. A tank twelve feet by seven is sufficient to supplY water a large family and six horses ; this was surrounid decd only four and half inch brick work resting solid against the sides, in consequence of being smaller at the bottom than higher up ; and the dome is constructe d on the Egyptian plan, by projecting horizontally each row of mg: terials one-third of their length beyond those below, an a filling up the back with earth as it proceeded, to balance the weight of this projecting masonry. At the East Bourn workhouse for 14 parishes a tank re has been made, 23 feet deep by 11 wide, of the roughest or terials, being only flint stones, and though they require mo mortar than if they had been regularly shaped, only bushels of lime were allowed, including two coats of plaister , and the workmanship is executed like field walls at 108' per 100 square feet, the only essential being that No clay be used (which worms bore through) and that the lime or Parker's cement be good. * * * * * Upwards of 20 labourers' gardens have been wate red by the rain which formerly injured the public road, and Was therefore turned into a sink well, which sink well was en larged and surrounded by nine inch masonry, and the water is drawn up by a cast-iron curb. This water was used in planting potatoes, and occasioned good crops in 1835, whe n setts not watered failed. And should the profitable made of stall feeding now practised at Armagh be happily ex tended to Cornwall, and fatting oxen be kept in pairs n?* tied up under shelter, it will be found that preserving in tanks the water which falls on the barns and stalls will amply supply them, whilst it saves the rain washing away th e strength of the manure when straw is spread in the open yard. Ponds have been made with equal success, dug four 11.0 a half feet only below the surface, what is excavate d be t ng added to the sides, and covered about one foot thick like a road with Peebles and good lime mortar. Such pods are becoming general on the dry soil of the South Downs for the use of the large flocks of sheep—and had such ponds been made in Romney Marsh, &c. during the late dr/ years, the sheep would not have died in such numbers a s materially raised the price of meat in London.—Fahn outk Packet. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. The following was yesterday posted at Lloyd's :-- " Admiralty, Oct. 3, 1836. e " Sir,—l am commanded by my Lords Commissioners °J. the Admiralty to acquaint you that Cape Florida, or Key Dir t , cano Light House, was burned down on the night of th e 24t of July last by the Indians, and their Lordships desire 113 e request that you will give this occurrence publicity. (Signed) "J. BARROW . " To W. Dobson, Esq., Secretary, Lloyd's." VESSELS ENTERED INWARDS AT THE CO. TOM-HOUSE, OCT. 4. The Enterprise, Hyllie, from New York • Ramona, Bride' Rotterdam ; Neptune, Zubala, Santander Hibernia, Greer:' Madras ; Comercia, Schroodhaven, Workum; Eliza , Shope pley, Belize ; St. Laurence, Harrington, Virginia; P rabutols Buttenshaw, Madras; Grase, Gull, Newfoundland. ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING, 00...4' The Emerald, Houghton, for Boulogne; Queen Adela'"' Fox, Havre; Giraffe, Major, Rotterdam ; Sarah , Tyreesit Valparaiso; Thames, Bramd, Madeira; Brazil, Paker, N 641 York ; Sir John Moore, Boxer, Seville. CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO, Ocr• d ay The William Metcalfe, Phillipson, for Van Diemen's 1 , 4 r r ; British Sovereign, Brain, Sidney ; Johanna , Lenn is, Sle! r Laone ; Lord Wellington, Dale, Demerara; Giraff e, ga e Rotterdam; Columbine, Strannack, Hamburgh; Earl . Pa thurst, Kennedy, Hamburgh ; Industry, Louvett, Halifax Shcpperd, Jardine, Cape of Good Hope ; Dart, Ditcb9ol4 Gibraltar ; Eliza, Critchell, Leghorn. CLEARED OUTWARDS IN BALLAST, Oc.r. 4. The Nicholas Benjamin, Pederson, for Norway ; Bellon3; Bender, Elsineur ; Bloom, Harrison, Gothenburgh; F l3° Brothers, Dorick, Dantzic ; Bulwar, Petrel!, Riga; YthaT3' Law, Dantzie ; Concord, Cobb, St. Petcrsburgh. ARRIVALS AT LIVERPOOL, OCT. 3. , „j, The Commerce, Primrose, from Gijon ; Brothers, 5c.011,80-t, St. Petersburgh; Esther, Inness, Demerara ; Davi d ster, Steer, New Orleans; Malcolm, Malcolm, St. Pet„ e ,4 burgh; Maria and Martha, Evans, Killala; Palmer, P' Orleans. ENTERED FOR LOADING, OCT. 3. The Hankinson, Hare, for Africa ; Ann Mackenzie, Set , Africa ; Romulus, Crawford, Alexandria ; Plym, Dan; Constantinople; llesperus, M'Dowall, Demerara; ge ie Wood, Collins, Jamaica; Juno, Cock, Savannah. CLEARED OUTWARDS, OcT. 3. The Baptist Mezick, Martin, for Bordeaux. TELEGRAPHED. Wind at Holyhead, W. N. W.—Off Point Lynas, inward bound, the Minerva, from Bombay. Joseph Buonaparte has neither obtained, nor es loch nor does he intend ever to ask, for permission to go to Ccu' s ,_ The Correo Atlantico, a New Orleans pap er of one 15th of August, contains the following strange editorial It; nouncement :—" The publication of this paper will be s t o f pended for a few weeks in consequence of the extreme blot, the season having impaired the health of its editor : it will s time in September next appear again." •ei se l THE PRIEST'S HAT.—John Hutcheson, e o s officer, was brought up on a summons, at the instaoa;tbe Henry Collins, for having, on the 15th inst., assaulteo top latter, and knocked off his hat. Collins stated that " ab ° J. t osl o'clock of thcs moonth he had left Lamberton Toll on r itjaoc hoome, when, about a quarter of a mile on this side, dolt" e ast' joumped out of a thorny hedge, took hold of him by the,„"i r i f i as, and took the hat off his head. I asked him," s aid td,° 6 0 0 " did he mean to rub me." After a tolerably long descr i c t i is of the scene, Collins declared that defendant had put ° I , 1 1,111 that mooch bodily fear that he had not been well since; he had courage to seize his hat, for When he saw his hat was off, He was so vexed a man— That he snatched it from th' exciseman's hand, And put it on again ! eOl O Andrew Wilson being called, gave the book a most s °' flo smack, and corroborated the evidence regarding the hat', th e mo reover stated that the exciseman rubbed Collins &lot sides (in search of usquebaugh). He then gav e defeo 00 knowing leer, and said he took particular notice o' aig had seen his face. (Here there occurred an aStrollOnlie 111 cussion upon the moon's phase on the night in questioulilsoott order to give effect to his description Mr. Leslie Bro wn wit" forward, and personified the Priest with his hat on, whiled t he ness acted the exciseman, who had joumped from be fo ' ro lut t thorny hedge. Mr. Ritson, excise officer, next cam oir c His evidence was to the effect that the Priest wa s t— d th a " suspected of going to carry whiskey into Berwick, err 00.: Hutchinson and himself had, in pursuance t h e d s bi watched, and were going to search him. It was de al co t defendant had done more than raised the hat f or a 1013.111,,j3ir the Priest's head. The case was eventually disraisseu wick Warder. a 1 v • PRIZE CUP S.—New and Second-hand „woos PRIZE CUPS are offered at very Reduced Price s+ alu at i e as e e r , may be made from a great variety, both of Sizes and bras T. COX SAVORY'S, Goldsmith, Silversmith, and Ws st 47, Cornhill, London. poStt # 4 ` A Sheet of Drawings of Cups will be forwarded ul a single letter, in answer to a post paid application. BIRTHS. Gen'' On the Ist., in Wimpole• street, the lady of HarveY of a son. ne „, S. 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